long term in comment and analysis
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Ultimately, businesses need to take a long-term view of sustainability. Rather than seeking out short-term stunts that may have PR value but lack substance and longevity, organisations need to understand areas that contribute to the overall picture... [17 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Enemies of the state
Comment It is blind to the long-term effects of an eroding talent pool that is a direct result of offshoring, which is made easy in the UK. Failure to foster innovation and talent is what's really coming home to roost, says the Naked CIO. [14 Jul 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Is there really a skills crisis?
Comment And in many cases, the IT topics that are taught are vulnerable to rapid obsolescence and are therefore of reduced long-term value. Confused IT skills policies in schools and colleges are part of the problem. [09 Jul 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment I remember our launch stirred up the market - in wider media circles, not just tech or business - because we were actually acting on everyone's long-term predictions: that media would move online, that it'd embrace video and so on. [07 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: What makes a great IT leader?
Comment But a few of my beliefs have been tainted by the corrosive effects of long-term exposure to corporate sewage. Climbing the greasy pole as a CIO depends on certain key factors. These are important for reaching the very top and indispensable for... [30 Jun 2008]
Bill Gates on the future, the past and the brilliance of fertilizer…
Comment But the way we were going about it and just thinking about software and how was the chip going to change and how did the pieces come together, and how did you do business in Europe and stuff, we were just different, we were just a long-term company. [26 Jun 2008]
Off the peg or tailor made?
Comment They also question the long-term implications of running critical business applications that are very expensive to buy and maintain, complex to deploy and invariably tied into a system of supplier-determined upgrades. [16 Jun 2008]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment In the not too distant future, you will be able to add 3G Long Term Evolution (LTE), mobile WiMax, multiple in multiple out (MiMo) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) to the mix. High-speed wireless networks are meant to make life... [12 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Robin Dargue, Group CIO, Royal Mail
Comment Dargue maintains he wants those skills to be Royal Mail Group people and that he will get that talent but in the short term he has brought in interim resources to fill that gap. Robin Dargue has long been known as something of a high-flyer in CIO... [11 Jun 2008]
Nigel Beighton
CIO Profile Beighton was then forced to take a long term break after a serious road accident. Before joining Teletext, Beighton has had a long career in IT, although he started his career at British Steel, within his home city of Sheffield. [11 Jun 2008]
Vodafone chief's departure is a sign of the times
Comment Giving what was presumably his final keynote at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) tradeshow in Barcelona in February, Sarin's words certainly had the air of a swan-song - laying out his hopes and dreams for the mobile industry, which... [29 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions
Comment The long-term prognosis was even worse, with total deaths forecast ranging between 150,000 and 3,500,000 individuals. Initial media reports for short-term deaths ranged from 2,000 to 30,000 individuals. [28 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: Madness in the method
Comment Seeing the dividends from a long-term project under waterfall can take years, which is never good news for your executive sponsor. Waterfall takes too long in the planning stages, especially for large projects, and makes small projects extremely... [19 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?
Comment To list a few: the short-term approach of politicians meddling with policies, which hard-pressed techies then have to deliver; the resistance of the civil service to change; the fast turnover of senior management on projects; the lack of... [30 Apr 2008]
Naked CIO: The true cost of IT
Comment The goal should be solely about trying to get appropriate buy-in, transparency in cost and effort and for all projects to have a net long-term benefit to the business. It's all very well trying to put price tags on everything the IT department does. [21 Apr 2008]
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